"By the way, Leader Chen Li, I want to cross the river from here and go to Jinxi, I don't know what the rules are?" After greeting for a long time, Li Zhi finally asked the right question.

"There are no rules, just pay money and food." Qiangzi said with a smile, he was also impatient with such politeness, and waited patiently for a long time, and when he saw that the other party finally asked the point, he couldn't help but rush to answer.

"Oh, how much does that cost?"

"Each person pays two taels of miscellaneous noodles, or fifty yuan, and we promise to send him across the river."

"This..."Li Zhi's face changed slightly when he heard this, "Is this price a little higher?" ”

This cost is really nothing to Zhiwen and them, but they can pretend to be surprised, and they still want it.

"Tall?" Qiangzi said, "We boatmen, the family is five or six or even seven or eight people, just point to a boat to eat, pull a job, there are only four or five people, no more than ten people, the harvest of food, enough for three or four people in the family to mix half a day, you still say high?" ”

"This..."Li Zhi couldn't go on, thinking that this was indeed the case, and asked again, "That fifty yuan is more than two taels of grain?" ”

"Alas," this was Chen Li, one of the older ones, "you guys, how long has it been since you bought food?" Now the most inferior miscellaneous noodles are almost twenty wen and one tael, and it will rise now, and the fifty wen we receive is really not high. ”

Li Zhi was completely speechless, and looked at each other with Zhiwen, both of them looking helpless.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are all strong and healthy people, and they are also masters of survival in the wild.

It's just that few of the refugees still have this money and food, especially food, which they have eaten early.

No wonder so many people gathered here and crossed the river, it turned out that there was no money to cross.

It's just that Brother Li and these people are not afraid of angering the refugees and bringing disaster to themselves?

Zhiwen looked at the wide river and thought thoughtfully.

"At first, some people didn't eat our set, relying on the large number of people, trying to force us to ferry them across the river." Qiangzi seemed to know what Zhiwen was thinking, and continued.

"But what kind of people are we, we all grew up by the Yellow River since we were children, and we don't have to say anything about the water, just a few of us in the west of the river, we can't beat and jump into the water, and no one can take us."

"There are people who don't know the depths, some follow the water, and some want to rock the boats on the dock to cross the river, but we have all cleaned them up in the water."

After showing off in one breath, Qiangzi concluded triumphantly: "From then on, you who have fled, no matter how arrogant he is, will not dare to offend us." ”

"Then the ferries along the Yellow River, either there are no boats, and there are boats and no people, which is also the means of the leaders?" Li Zhi is not stupid, and with a turn of his mind, he understands the reason why there is no one to ferry these ferries.

"That's not what you people are doing!" The old man just now suddenly became excited, "At the beginning, we were scattered at various ferries, and if we met people who fled and wanted to cross the river, if we had money and food, we would collect some of them, and if we really didn't have them, we would forget it." After all, we rely on the river to eat, in addition to ferrying, we can also fish. ”

"At first, it was okay, we were still safe and sound, but who knew that it didn't take long for you people to have a bad conscience, and even robbed our boat, forced us to ferry, and that's it, but also robbed us of our food and killed our people..."

Zhiwen and Li Zhi were speechless, and all kinds of cruel scenes on the way to escape came to their hearts for a while, knowing that the elder was not lying, and someone would definitely be able to do this kind of thing.

"Thanks to Brother Li, I found such a good ferry port and called us here, and our families were all settled in Hedong, so we people can be regarded as having a backbone and are no longer bullied." The elder calmed down a little and continued.

No wonder the port is so wide, and most of the boats are on the opposite shore.

Even if some of the refugees were water-free, it would be impossible to swim across the other side of the river without being detected by them.

This not only prevents refugees from smuggling, but also prevents people from touching and sneaking up on the door, and this is a great place for boatmen.

"Also," Qiangzi interjected triumphantly again, "don't think about going down to find other ferries, let's tell you the truth, the whole Jinxi and southern Henan, the only place where you can cross the river!" ”

"Then there is no one to ferry Pujin Ferry and Fengling Ferry?" Li Zhi didn't believe it, he had read some books, and knew that these two ferries had been famous ancient ferries since ancient times, and they were not far away, and they should not be deserted.

Zhiwen naturally didn't know much about these, but he only felt that the three words "Fenglingdu" were a little familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, he vaguely remembered which of Jin Yong's novels he seemed to have read, and at that time he felt that these three words were very meaningful and had a very high style.

"Hehe," Qiangzi smiled, "Yes, yes, you can try it, don't blame me for not reminding you, it's all in the hands of the government, and the official army, it's much darker than us, don't talk about the price, it's good not to arrest you as thieves." ”

Zhiwen tugged at Li Zhi's clothes, he had already asked about it, and he was not in a hurry to cross the river immediately, Doctor Sun hadn't found it yet, so he would go back first.

"Well, thank you leaders for telling me, let me go back and discuss a thing or two, Li Zhi will leave." After that, he turned around with Zhiwen and was about to leave.

"Wait!" But it was Brother Li, who had been silent, who spoke.

"Leader Chen Li, I don't know what to say?"

"Mr. Li, as soon as I saw you here, you dug a pit to bury the corpses, sprinkled lime powder, and now you are cleaning up the feces, I don't know why?"

"Well," Li Zhi said with a smile, "digging a pit and scattering lime on the corpses is to prevent the spread of the plague, and we did it all the way." As for cleaning up the feces, it's because we don't want to be in the company of. ”

"Oh!" Brother Li pondered slightly, and then asked, "I wonder what your Excellency has to do with Divine Doctor Sun?" ”

"Doctor Sun?" Li Zhi lost his mind slightly, and then realized that it was not Dr. Sun, who was respected as a miracle doctor by refugees, but he didn't expect the name to spread here.

"Help Doctor Sun take care of all the chores, so that Doctor Sun can concentrate on curing diseases and saving people." After a little hesitation, Li Zhi introduced himself like this.

"I see, no wonder you act like this, you are very particular, you are actually a person of Sun Shenyi, disrespectful... Oh no, it's rude. After knowing the relationship between Li Zhi and Dr. Sun, Brother Li's attitude changed greatly, and he pointed to a few covered boats parked by the dock and said, "We don't even have a place to sit here in Hexi, so it's no wonder that we are coarse people!" ”

It's not that Brother Li is so gullible about Li Zhi, but what they did before, people have to believe that this is what Doctor Sun instructed.

Li Zhiwen and Zhiwen were a little surprised by his drastic change in attitude, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.

Knowing that they had doubts, Brother Li took the initiative to explain: "In the past few months, the name of Doctor Sun has been spread all over the ferry here, saying that he is a descendant of the King of Medicine, a Buddha born in ten thousand families, and has saved the lives of many people. Although we have some problems with the refugees, we respect doctors like Dr. Sun Shen who have cured the sick and saved countless lives. ”

"I don't know if Doctor Sun is here, I want to visit us to show my respect." Brother Li cautiously made his request.

"Uh, this..."Li Zhi hesitated, looked at Zhiwen, and saw that Zhiwen nodded slightly, and then said, "Doctor Sun has just disappeared!" ”